Swift Student Challenge 2025 announced by Apple
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 by Richard Harris
Apple is excited to introduce the Swift Student Challenge, a program dedicated to empowering the next generation of developers, creators, and entrepreneurs. This initiative has allowed thousands of student developers to exhibit their creativity and coding skills through app playgrounds while acquiring valuable real-world experience that can benefit their future careers....
Swift Programmers Using Checkmarx Can Now Detect Security and Code Flaws
Wednesday, September 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
Since launching publicly at Apple’s WWDC in 2014, Swift has soared in popularity amongst programmers and has caught the attention of other major technology players in the process. Google is now even considering implementing Swift as a “first class” language for Android. Facebook and Uber are exploring ways to make Swift more central to their operations, while IBM, ...
Perfect Offers Swift Web Server and Toolkit for Developers
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Perfect is a web server and toolkit for developers using the Swift programming language to build applications and other REST services. The platform lets developers build using only Swift to program both the client-facing and server-side of their projects.The platform is free-to-use and available under the permissible Apache License v2.0. It provides developers with a fr...
Make School Summer Developer Training Includes VR and Gaming
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The Make School Summer Academy located in San Francisco is offering a Summer Academy series designed to teach product development in four tracks areas: Intro to Swift Development, Gaming Development, VR Development and iOS App Development.The deadline to apply is May 15 and pricing for each Academy varies by track. Tuition assistance is available. Here is an overview of...
C++ Developer Tools From JetBrains
Friday, October 2, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Many of you are familiar with JetBrains, which provides the development community with a myriad of tools that automates common, repetitive tasks as well as help developers explore and familiarize with code bases faster.JetBrains has tools for a number of environments including Android, iOS, Java, .NET, Ruby, Python, C++, and many more. From IDEs, Code Editing Tools, Iss...
Salesforce Launches Developer Pack for Apple Watch
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 by Richard Harris
On the heals of the announcement of the release date for the Apple Watch, Salesforce has announced three products for developers interested in leveraging the new technology. These include the Salesforce Analytics Cloud for Apple Watch, Salesforce1 for Apple Watch and Salesforce Wear Developer Pack for Apple Watch. Salesforce Analytics Cloud for Apple WatchSalesforc...
Win a Piece of $500,000 By Creating Apps Using Apple’s Swift Language
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Appirio has announced that it is teaming with BMC Software, Booz Allen Hamilton, Brivo Labs, HARMAN and the NTT Innovation Institute, to host a contest to create iOS and OS X apps based on Apple’s new Swift programming language. As part of the GetSwifter Challenge Series, these organizations have partnered with the “topcoder” community to help build mobile and...
Apple Opens New Swift Blog, Announces Xcode 6 Beta 3 for iOS Development
Friday, July 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
As Apple moves forward with the refinement of the new Swift programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, which works side-by-side with Objective-C, it has launched a new Swift specific blog. In Apples words, “This new blog will bring you a behind-the-scenes look into the design of the Swift language by the engineers who created it, in addition to the l...
Get Your Reading Glasses: Apple Publishes 500 Page Behemoth of a Guide for New Swift Programming Language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
From a developer standpoint, one of the top news out of Apple’s WWDC is the new Swift programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, which works side-by-side with Objective-C.Apple is touting the platform as a fast, high-performance LLVM compiler, where Swift code is transformed into optimized native code, tuned to get the most out of modern Mac, iPhone, and iPad hardw...
Apple’s WWDC Brings OS X Yosemite With New Swift for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch and Advances in App Extensions, SpriteKit, SceneKit, Safari, and iCloud
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 by Richard Harris
The announcement of OS X Yosemite brings the new Swift programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch as well as advances in SpriteKit and SceneKit, Safari, iCloud, and more.Some of the highlights include:App ExtensionsWith App Extensions any app can add new functionality to OS X Yosemite, enabling access to app features from almost anywhere. Once a user installs an app...
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